Caribbean Thunder is a 1st MSC-led collective training exercise with focus on inter-island sustainment operations in support of Large-Scale Combat Operations. Caribbean Thunder takes place across eight (8) locations in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Northern Strike is a National Guard Bureau sponsored, multi-component, multinational exercise designed to build readiness and enhance interoperability with allied forces to fight and win. Northern Strike 25-2, Michigan’s largest and longest exercise designed to validate readiness of the joint reserve force, is held Aug. 2 to 16, 2025 at the National All-Domain Warfighting Center. This year's...
DEFENDER is the Army’s largest annual opportunity to exercise moving personnel and equipment into theater across modes for initial and follow-on operations critical to Large Scale Combat Operations. Led by U.S. Army Europe and Africa, the exercise focuses on the strategic deployment of CONUS-based forces, employment of Army Prepositioned Stock and follow-on exercises demonstrating lethality...
Saber Junction is a multinational rotational exercise designed to assess the readiness of U.S. Army units to execute unified land operations in a joint, combined environment and to promote interoperability with participating Allied and partner nations.
The Department of the Air Force is preparing to be a stronger, more lethal deterrent force. This includes enhancing readiness with more sophisticated operational exercises, changes to enhance the rapid deployment of forces, and the regular exercise of mission command. The 2025 Department-Level Exercise (DLE) series is an important opportunity to conduct operations in a contested, dynamic...
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Burmese Chase 24 is hosted by U.S. Marines with 2d Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, II Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, and is an annual U.S. led, multi-lateral exercise that includes training on integration of ground and air fires, infantry tactics and naval gunfire alongside North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies. The exercise is taking place at Camp Lejeune, North...
Burmese Chase 25 is hosted by U.S. Marines with 2d Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, II Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, and is an annual U.S. led, multi-lateral exercise that includes training on integration of ground and air fires, infantry tactics and naval gunfire alongside North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies. The exercise is taking place at Camp Lejeune, North...
